Mulready envelopes are elaborately decorated, pre-paid envelopes and letter sheets issued in England, in 1840, at the same time as the Penny Black, the world's first postage stamp.
Mulready
Pictorial envelope and letter-sheet produced in 1840
Newspaper stamps ...
1d Mulready Lettersheet
2d Mulready Lettersheet
Mulready Stationery Envelopes, Lettersheets, Parodies, Lampoons, Caricatures and Exhibit Pages
National Postal Museum, Washington, D.C. Stamps That Changed the World ...
The Mulready envelopes and letter sheets of Great Britain, so called because they were designed by William Mulready, had their first day of sale on May 1, 1840, and official first day of use on May 6, ...
The Mulready envelopes (actually the brother of the postage stamp), with the illustrations on the front, were adapted for use during our Civil War (Civil War Patriotics) and in the Spanish-American War, ...
Mulready: named for designer of Britain's first postal envelope in 1839; the decorated postal stationery was so ridiculed that it had a very short life.
This, the famous "Mulready Envelope," caused an even greater public expression than did the adhesive stamp.
Mulready - The fist pictorial envelope issued by a Post Office. Designed by William Mulready, R.A., and issued with the denominations of 1d and 2d respectively.
Mulreadys. Later advertisements appeared on the sheet margins (selvedge), on interleaved pages in stamp booklets and on labels attached to stamp panes (also in booklets). Also appear on back of stamps e.g. New Zealand.
the depiction of the current reigning monarch on the stamp, and the lack of the issuing country name on the stamp. The postal service decided to use an image of Queen Victoria taken from a previously-issued medallion, with William Mulready doing the ...
 See also: Stamp, Sheet, Cover, Used, Philatelic
  
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